[Fwd: RE: More stuff brewing at Oscon]

[John H. Robinson, IV]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:26:46PM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote:
> 
> On a related subject, I'm often disgusted by companies that bring
> civil suits of little merit (and governments that do the same
> with criminal charges) just because they know that the expense of
> litigation and damage to reputation will punish their adversary.
> There should be more protection against that -- especially when
> the government does it.

they have someothing like that - it is called 

``loser pays''

-john